The Christian Church does not exist in Heaven, but on earth and in time.

To clasp the hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against the disorder of the world.

Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.

Take your Bible and take your newspaper, and read both. But interpret newspapers from your Bible.

Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so?

When we speak of our virtues we are competitors, when we confess our sins we become brothers.

I take the Bible far too seriously to take it literally.

We must read the Bible through the eyes of shipwrecked people for whom everything has gone overboard.

Grace and gratitude belong together like heaven and earth. Gratitude evokes grace like the voice and echo. Gratitude follows grace as thunder follows lightning.

Grace creates liberated laughter. The grace of God...is beautiful, and it radiates joy and awakens humor.

Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.

I got married. A bright past is ahead of me!

If you see a leader solving one conflict wisely, remember he is working hard to prevent 10 of such from happening!

Some journeys don't have endings, they lead to new beginnings. These are the journeys that lead to great adventures!

As long as this exists, this sunshine and this cloudless sky, and as long as I can enjoy it, how can I be sad?

All religious notions are uniformly founded on authority; all the religions of the world forbid examination, and are not disposed that men should reason upon them.

You've only mastered the storm you can sleep through.

Self-contemplation is apt to end in self-conceit.

If I can take it, I can make it.

A society which denies the heart its role becomes, in very short order, a heartless society.

A man's bookcase will tell you everything you'll ever need to know about him